Sana R. Chaudhry is a researcher, writer, translator, and professor. Hailing from Pakistan and having completed her graduate studies in the United States and her doctoral degree from the United Kingdom, Sana has deep ties with her natal land as well as the American and British cultures. She specializes in literatures of the body, trauma, witnessing, and silence.
She translates both classic as well as contemporary Urdu authors into English. Sana has translated works by Sa’adat Hasan Manto, Fahmida Riaz, and Julien Columeau. Her work has appeared in The Aleph Review, Wasafiri, Literature, Critique, Empire Today, South Parade, The Paris Review, and The Bombay Literary Magazine. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of North Florida. Her monograph Experiments in Silence: The Urdu Short Story after 1947 is forthcoming from Clemson University Press in Spring 2025.
